A Silicon Model Of Auditory Localization
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MIT Press in Neural Computation
- Vol. 1 (1) , 47-57
- https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1989.1.1.47
Abstract
The barn owl accurately localizes sounds in the azimuthal plane, using interaural time difference as a cue. The time-coding pathway in the owl's brainstem encodes a neural map of azimuth, by processing interaural timing information. We have built a silicon model of the time-coding pathway of the owl. The integrated circuit models the structure as well as the function of the pathway; most subcircuits in the chip have an anatomical correlate. The chip computes all outputs in real time, using analog, continuous-time processing.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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